Along with the announcement of the coming MacOS X Lion last Monday, Apple announced its new service called iCloud, which is coming in Fall this year (around September).
The Mac community has been abuzzed with speculations about this new offering for months before the WWDC. It was finally introduced by Steve Jobs himself at last Monday's event.
In his address, Jobs explained that ten years ago, their big idea was to make the PC/Mac the center of users' digital life where music, videos and photos are stored. But all's that changed now because of the new devices that could also store and play music, video and photos.
So Apple's new big idea is to make the PC/Mac as just another device and put all media files in the cloud they named iCloud. But this cloud is not just a harddisk in the sky, as Steve pointed out. iCloud automatically uploads, stores and pushes your contents to all of your devices. It is also completely integrated to all apps so everything happens automatically and there's nothing to learn. As Steve puts it, "It just works."
Jobs said that they at Apple love iCloud so much that they're giving the service to their clients for free! Everyone is given a 5GB space in the iCloud where you can store your Contacts, Mail, Calendar and yes, even your Documents. No need to bring a USB drive to bring your Keynote presentation or Pages papers.
Of course everything you buy from the AppStore, iBookstore and iTunes store are automatically uploaded to your iCloud. What more, your apps, books and music are not counted against your free space as long as they remain in their respective stores.
You can already try this service in beta. If you are an iTunes user like me, if you buy something from the store, you can make your other devices to download your purchase automatically at no extra cost. Just go to the settings of your iPad or iPhone and make them automatically download your purchases. Yes, it just works!
So Apple's new big idea is to make the PC/Mac as just another device and put all media files in the cloud they named iCloud. But this cloud is not just a harddisk in the sky, as Steve pointed out. iCloud automatically uploads, stores and pushes your contents to all of your devices. It is also completely integrated to all apps so everything happens automatically and there's nothing to learn. As Steve puts it, "It just works."
Jobs said that they at Apple love iCloud so much that they're giving the service to their clients for free! Everyone is given a 5GB space in the iCloud where you can store your Contacts, Mail, Calendar and yes, even your Documents. No need to bring a USB drive to bring your Keynote presentation or Pages papers.
Of course everything you buy from the AppStore, iBookstore and iTunes store are automatically uploaded to your iCloud. What more, your apps, books and music are not counted against your free space as long as they remain in their respective stores.
You can already try this service in beta. If you are an iTunes user like me, if you buy something from the store, you can make your other devices to download your purchase automatically at no extra cost. Just go to the settings of your iPad or iPhone and make them automatically download your purchases. Yes, it just works!
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